Mallam Abass Mahmud, a Ghanaian Muslim cleric says Allah gets annoyed when men engage in sexual intercourse with other men and that such acts were responsible for earthquake.

He said such behaviour were not pleasant in the sight of God and needed to be abhorred by all.

Abass Mahmud said in an interview: “Allah gets annoyed when males engage in sexual encounter and such disgusting encounter causes earthquake.”

He also said Allah destroyed the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah ‘as the result of homesexuality’.

In the chat with the Daily Mail Mahmud asked: “Should we allow such a shame to continue in our communities against holy teachings? Certainly no, and we are very happy to chase away such idiots from our Zongo communities.”

Muslim youths in the communities have created special task forces to fight what they describe as the importation of “white man’s culture”.

Accra has for sometime seen people believed to be gay face some form of hostility, especially its Zongo communities.